freeclimb9

I'll reiterate that, IMO, There has been an increase in greenhouse gases correlated to increased industrialization. And Draw your own conclusions. Me? I'm sweating the fact that the Canadian arctic is posting warmer temperatures this year (eg. Resolute is 10-15 degrees C warmer than "normal"), and I'm planning a trip on the sea ice.

You're tripping, dude. Without question, some regions have gotten warmer in past years. For example, the annual mean temperature in the state of Alaska has risen 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit over the last 30 years. A thermometer is a pretty low-tech instrument, and I'd venture to say that a majority of scientists would agree that the warming occurred.

The vehicles are restricted by license number. An even/odd deal. I don't know of emission restrictions on individual autos, though.

Large, naturally occurring, changes in CO2 levels in the geologic past have been correlated with features of climate change. It's hard to predict how current changes in greenhouse gas levels will affect mean temperature. Mexico City does impose limits on the numbers of vehicles on the road.

"Fuck, man. I'm okay!"

The "coup de grace" would be a sales contract for exportation of raw materials (in this case, water) from BC. At least that's the model derived from forest product sales.

j_b, the uncertainty of how greenhouse gases (of which CO2 is only one, but certainly has increased the most since pre-industrial times) affect the greenhouse effect is large.

That's speculative. Warfare, soil depletion, and disease were probably larger forces --at least for New World cultures.

The Greenland Ice Core project has retreived samples representative of the last 100,000 yrs. Not such a small sample size. Climate change is occuring. The accumulative data is suggestive of a man-made influence, but no smoking gun exists. No question, we'll have to deal with it.

Liberals are prone to self-inflicted wounds too. Or was Vince Foster murdered?

Just ridiculus:

As I understand it, BD developed the 10cm ice-screw for the thin-ice of Maple Canyon (which, when there's enough snow to yield melt-off and subsequent ice, is amazing. But the top-outs are still often thin). I've climbed next to BD engineer types there, and one guy used the stubbies exclusively, and managed placements times of less than 20 seconds. In good ice, they're supposed to hold pretty well since holding power depends greatly on the threads. I place them with confidence in good ice when high on a pitch (i.e. when there's plenty of rope stretch to minimize fall factor). If the ice blows out in a fall, you're hosed (in other words, the edge of a bulge might not be the best place to put short screws). The 13cm screws have slightly more threads than the 17cm and 22cm screws, so --theoretically-- they'll hold as well, or better, than the long screws. For crap ice, though, I put in a long screw in a downward direction.

Beats me. Grandma was 1/2 English, 1/2 German, and raised in western Alberta after migrating from Colorado. I think calling the drink "Boston tea" was to make it that much more appealing. One funny thing was that my mother didn't realize there was no tea in the drink until a few years ago.

"Boston tea" is a favorite hot drink (just milk and sugar) my grandma used to serve, and now I make for my children.

Yea it does. But I've noticed that once it starts slipping, it won't grab for awhile, unlike nylon which re-cinches pretty fast. Gets the blood pumping when you slip, fersure.

Especially when one considers that slippery spectra doesn't hold well even when configured in a Hedden knot.

Thumping Pacific weather on the outside is bringing more snow to western states today and tomorrow(forecast for 2-3 feet tonight in the Sierras). I guess that cancels any notion of an "easy" true winter ascent of any mountain (I had been eyeing conditions in the Tetons where the snow depth had been unseasonably low).

History will judge whether "Bahgdad Sean" will suffer the same infamy as "Hanoi Jane".

Do you mean to ask "what should you do" after you beat your dumbass partner's dumb ass?

Have you ever wondered where and how yodeling began? Most believe it originated in Switzerland. Here's the real version. Many years ago a man was traveling through the mountains of Switzerland. Nightfall was rapidly approaching and he had nowhere to sleep. He went up to a farmhouse and asked the farmer if he could spend the night. The farmer told him that he could sleep in the barn. As the story goes, the farmer's daughter came down from upstairs and asked her father, "Who is that man going into the barn?" "That's some fellow traveling through," said the farmer. "He needs a place to stay for the night, so I said he could sleep in the barn." The daughter said, "Perhaps he is hungry" So she prepared him a plate of food and took it out to the barn. About an hour later, the daughter returned. Her clothing disheveled and straw in her hair. Straight up to bed she went. The farmer's wife was very observant. She then suggested that perhaps the man was thirsty. So she fetched a bottle of wine, she took it out to the barn, and she too did not return for an hour. Her clothing was askew, her blouse buttoned incorrectly and her hair all messed up. She also headed straight to bed. The next morning at sunrise the man in the barn got up and continued on his journey, waving to the farmer as he left. When the daughter awoke and learned that the visitor was gone, she broke into tears. "How could he leave without even saying good-bye," she cried. "We made such passionate love last night!" "What?" shouted the father as he angrily ran out of the house looking for the man, who by now was halfway up the mountain. The farmer screamed up at him, "I'm going to get you! You had sex with my daughter!" The man kept on walking. The farmer became more enraged, went back into the house and got his gun. The farmer shot at the man, but he was out of range. Hearing the rifle shots, the visitor in turn got angry. He looked back down from the mountainside, cupped his hand next to his mouth, and yelled out, "LAIDTHEOLDLADEETOO.

damn, you're right. I'll add this one last comment, and you can take it however you want. I once had a pair of strap-on crampons that were Mugs Stumps'. The horizontal front points were sharpened from the top. I figure he knew what he was doing.

That's what Grivel recommends, but I've never seen anybody do that . Crampons are such soft metal, I'm curious as to how a triangular point wears when stubbing your feet on rock and hitting black ice. Do the triangular points wear okay?

Tis the season to crank out gifts. I made a batch of chocolate cream caramels. They turned out great. I was planning to make a batch of vanilla cream caramels today, but the wet weather will mess it up (humidity is no good for taffies and caramels). I'm taking my sons to see Star Trek later today. So, no climbing. Weather's warm for ice, but wet for rock.

Makes youz own, foo.